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Laptop Battery Ohio's utility watchdog office on Thursday asked a government task force studying the nation's worst blackout to recommend mandatory transmission reliability standards and severe consequences for noncompliance.

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Thinkpad Jeffrey Small of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel office was among a handful of people who spoke at a hearing on the U.S.-Canadian task force's report on the Aug. 14 blackout, which affected an estimated 50 million people.

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Microsoft A three-month investigation found the blackout could have been prevented and four industry reliability standards were violated by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp., along with two violations by the Midwest grid operator.

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Laptop Computers ``Residential customers want and deserve reliable service for which they pay as part of their rates. During the blackout, they did not receive such service,'' Small said.

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Laptop Computer The industry is largely self-regulated, and violations of voluntary transmission standards carry no fines.

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Desktop Computer FirstEnergy spokeswoman Kristen Baird said Thursday the company supports mandatory reliability standards.

Notebooks ``It needs to be uniform,'' she said. ``We'll certainly do our part.''

Lenovo The company says it wants to lead efforts to improve reliability of transmission lines so a massive blackout doesn't happen again.

Hard Drive The company wants to examine ``the lessons learned and what do we all need to do moving forward,'' Chuck Jones, senior vice president of energy delivery and customer service, said in New York on Wednesday.

Travelstar About 60 people, mostly power company representatives, filled the hearing room Thursday. Two other hearings on the task force's interim report, which was released last month, will be held in New York City and Toronto.

Gateway Corry Schiermeyer, a U.S. Energy Department spokeswoman, said the task force expected to hear from many more people despite the low turnout of speakers in Cleveland. The public also had an opportunity to comment by mail or the Internet, she said.

Laptop Parts Cleveland was among the hardest hit cities because the outage knocked its water supply off line and left the city with a $2 million bill.

Software The task force report pointed to the failure of a FirstEnergy computer system that monitors electricity flow in causing the blackout.

Hard Drives It criticized FirstEnergy for inadequate computer hardware, software and training. It also said the company allowed trees underneath transmission lines to grow too tall, triggering several outages when the lines sagged.

Electronics The task force found that the blackout was triggered by the failure of three high-voltage lines belonging to FirstEnergy. That led to a series of transmission-line failures that knocked out more than 263 power plants across the Midwest, Northeast and Ontario, the report said.

Canon FirstEnergy has criticized the interim report as incomplete and maintains that it shouldn't be singled out because other problems in the Midwest power grid factored into the blackout.

Desktop Pc The company offered the task force several suggestions to improve the complex power grid, including establishing mandatory reliability standards for all providers and improving monitoring of real-time power flow on the grid.

Desktop Computers Jones also said FirstEnergy plans a comprehensive study of the Lake Erie Loop, an electrical grid that includes the failed company lines.

Think Pad FirstEnergy also announced plans Wednesday to improve tree trimming around power lines, update computer software, improve communication with other utilities and better transmission operator training.

Repair The company will adopt a ``zero-tolerance'' policy when it comes to outages caused by trees, which would include dispatching more trimming crews and offering unspecified incentives for employees who help prevent such power failures, Jones said.

Data Recovery Associated Press - 12/4/2003

Topic: Energy

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